Holidailies 2021

Pirates and Zombies Oh MY!

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Holidailies Prompt: Share your favorite picture from holidays past.

This looked like a fun prompt- the only thing is I don’t have one picture from Holidays past that I would say is my favorite. I find myself looking back at some of them and wondering why I took it in the first place and a year later I’ll love it  again.

It’s much easier to pick a picture of my favorite Christmas Tree because I put a lot of time and effort to put this one together ( thank you Archie McPhee’s )  and when I was done I loved it to bits and put it out for the next three years. I still love it to bits and I still have the little decorations too. Who knows. I might revisit this one next year:

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Christmas 2011

A.M. Moscoso
Christmas 2011

My Yule Cat

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Tonight is Krampusnacht, but I thought I would add this additional post about th Yule Cat.

You see, one year my cat Carl Kolchak jumped into the frame every time I tried to take a picture of my Christmas tree. I got the hint and took  his picture and  after I put my camera down he grabbed  my tree in his jaws and jumped out the window and took off with it.

Eventually I got it back and do  you know what?

I may not be 100% sure about Krampus, but I am 100% sure about the Yule Cat because- lucky me- I owned one.

Or he owned me.

Either way, I have no complaints. Kolchak was a magnificent feline.

Carl Kolchak seconds before he took off with my Chrismas Tree
Photo By A.M Moscoso

The Mad Crafter

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Hey while I am taking on the Holidailies 2021 project why not go ahead and take on ANOTHER one on top it?

Well, to tell you the truth I know I have to organize my writing time and projects -even my blog better. So there is a method to my madness.

Here it is:

There is a very inspiring prompt from the now shuttered Soul Food Cafe and as I went through it I got some great ideas for my blog.

Heads up. The prompts have been archived and the SFC is no longer ‘live’

With that out fo the way,  for this month I’ve chosen to work on the 2003 Made In Australia Advent Calender .

Just as a side note, I was part of the SFC writers community for many years and there is so much to work on in the way of prompts that I never got through half of them- so I would encourage you to noodle around if you need a little boost.

This is what I’m starting off with on the Day 2 Prompt:

1. Establish a visual journal to record your plans and to write about the projects you undertake this month. You will find lots of good ideas about visual journal keeping in the Visual Journal Lounge at The Soul Food Cafe.

In case you haven’t noticed or gone back on some of my posts, I love to put up artwork and ambience videos. Because of Covid and the Shutdowns I haven’t been to art galleries or the Symphony in over a year and in that time I discovered something.

My brain and my soul were starving to be fed.

And I found a feast on line.

I really enjoyed going through the works of different artists from different time periods and when as I did that I found myself not just writing- but feeling what I was writing.

I play  the ambience videos on my laptop when I’m working. I don’t see what’s going on but the sounds of storms or the ocean or a combination of those things with just a touch of background music keeps that rhythm in my head going when I’m writing.

I’ve created a category for the end of this year and next where I thought I’d organize  the projects, the material ( well the artwork ) and the ambience videos.

Evgeny Lushpin

These two paintings fall into a category called Hyperrealism.

My plan is to work on the following prompt and two use these portraits as inspiration:

December Homing

Consider the meaning of the word homing.

homing adj : orienting or directing homeward or to a destination; “the homing instinct”; “a homing beacon”

Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

I think that this is going to be a great month long project and I think that having a place to noodle around is going to be a great help in my writing.

Can You Dig It?

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RDP Tuesday: SWEET POTATO 

When I was a kid I had this thing

about vegetables.

I would not eat carrots or potatoes

I wouldn’t  eat them if you candied them or baked them in a pie

and I was notorious in my family for my sweet tooth.

I was known to toss back chocolates and I hated chocolate as much as I hated carrots

and potatoes, but chocolates are sweet- even if it tastes a little bitter.

So why did I hate these two and only these two vegetables?

I hated them because you dug them up out of the ground

and you put them in bags and took them to the kitchen covered in dirt and bugs.

It was creepy.

So. You may be wondering, how did I arrive at this odd point of view?

With a leap and bound propelled by an overactive imagination, that is how.

 

 Boris Karloff’s ” The Body Snatcher ” was one of my favorite movies.

I saw it  for the first time when I was 6 years old.

After seeing that movie, there was no way heckin’ way I was going to eat

something  that you  dug up out of the ground and then, diced, mashed, baked or

stewed with the aid of big knives

and  pots of boiling water.

Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

 

This is true. Every word. And to this day when I eat potatoes or carrots I don’t get

weirded out anymore- though it took awhile.

I’ve grown up, my sensibilities have changed. I’ve embraced the things that scared me

when I was little.

Now when I eat something that has been dug up from underground.

I smile a creepy  little smile.